Combination tool



' Aug. 17 ,1926, 1596,59?

H; L. EAGAN El AL COMBINATION TOOL Filed Feb. 17. 1923 Patented Aug. 17, 1926.

HENRY LILLARD EAGAN AND OTIE CLARK KINSOLVING, OF NASHVILLE TENNESSEE.

COMBINATION TOOL.

Application filed February 17, 1923. Serial No. 619,706.

Our invention relates to combination tools and is designed for use of street railway linemen, automobile drivers, or tourists, household use or for other purposes for which it may be found practical, the same constituting a hammer, a hatchet, wrenches, nail puller, pinch bar, and screw-driver in a single instrument.

The object of the invention is to provide 7 a combination tool which is particularly adapted for use by various, craftsmen requiring a number of tools, so that it will not be necessary to carry about the usual number of separatetools, and also the provision of a tool which is desirable for household use.

The invention consists in the'several parts and features to be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claim, reference being had to the accompanying drawings forming a part hereof.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the right side of the tool;

F ig. 2 is a similar view of the left side of the tool;

Fig. 3 is a top view;

Fig. 4 is a front end view; and

Figs. 5, 6, and'7 represent views of a socket wrench, valve grinder, and screwdriver, respectively, which are susceptible of use in connection with our invention.

Referring more particularly to the drawings the reference numeral 1 indicates the poll of the hammer which has the integral bifurcated claw 2 which forms a nail puller, and formed integral with the hammer is the hatchet or cutting blade 3.

The handle 4: which is preferably integral with the hammer and hatchet, is of the general shape shown and its sides taper rearwardly on opposite similar arcs to a sharp edge such as a knife edge which may be used as an ordinary screw-driver and to form a pinch-bar end 11, both side faces of the handle at this end being provided with straight transverse serrations or corrugations 6 to render the device more effective as pincl1bar or crowbar from either side, in fact a double-acting pinch-bar.

The hammer and hatchet head is provided in its right side face with a recess or opening 5 to engage a tap or machine bolt head.

A rectangular recess or opening 7 is made in the right side of the handle 4, said recess being located at approximately the longitudinal center of the tool, said recess being adapted to engage and operate the socket wrench, valve grinder, and screw-driver shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7 respectively.

The socket wrench shown inFig. 5 includes the body portion 18, the enlarged end 19, in which is the pocket 20, and the rectangular head 21.

The valve grlnder shown in Fig. 6 com- 23 having the projections 24 for engaging the valve, and the rectangular head 25.

The screw-driver shown in Fig. 7 comprises the shank or tang 26, the blade end prises the body portion 22, the enlarged end 27 for engaging the screw, and the rectangular head 28.

arious sized rectangular recessed openings 8, 9 and 10 are made in the right side of the tool and these openings are adapted for engagement with standard sizes of bolt heads or nuts, whereby the tool itself functions as a wrench.

In Fig. 2, which shows the left side of the tool, the reference numerals 13, 14 and 15 designate rectangular recessed openings for purposes similar to the openings 8, 9 and 10, and these openings 13, 14, and 15 are coaxial with the openings 8, 9 and 10, but larger thus forming countersinks with shoulders where the respective openings meet or merge. As shown in this figure the left side of the hammer is also provided with a rectangular recessed opening 12 which is coaxial with the opening 5 and is designed to engage standard size nut or bolt heads, but of different size to those engageable by the opening 5.

As stated the member 2 is a bifurcated claw, the furcations being produced by the opening 16 to receive the nail or tack to be pulled.

The front end of the tool, that is the hammer and hatchet, is provided with a rectangular recessed opening 17 which is designed to engage also the accessories shown in Figs. 5, 6 and 7. By so arranging the opening 17 in the forward end of the tool the operator is enabled to use the hammer and hatchet head as a handle to get the necessary leverage. v

An advantage secured by locating the opening 17 at approximately thelongitudinal or axial center of the tool head is that the operator can use both hands and apply the leverage at the opposite ends of the tool and render the device more effective.

In using the tool to extract nails or tacks the bifurcated claw 2, the outer end of which lies slightly below the line of the flat face of the hammer poll 1, is engaged with the nail or tack, and the poll 1 is used as a fulcrum, the pinch-bar end 11 being grasped and pulled to obtain the necessary leverage.

By placing the sockets 5 and 12 in the hatchet end of the tool a wrench of great leverage is produced, and by locating the series of various-sized recessed openings in the handle portion a multiple socket wrench is produced which will be available for a great number of standard size nut and bolt heads.

The combination tool will preferably be made from one piece of metal, and can be cast or forged to provide the several instrumentalities included.

By providing the countersunk openings 13, 14 and 15 which are coaxial with the openings 10, 9 and 8 respectively, shoulders are formed thus providing six socket wrenches with only three openings, and hence the handle is weakened less.

Furthermore by placing the series of sockets 8, 9 and 10 etc. in the end of handle of the hammer rearwardly of the central opening 7, the full strength. of the solid handle portion in advance of said opening 7, is utilized, which is of great advantage where the sockets 5 and 12 are used.

From the above it will be seen that we provide a tool of great utility and convenience, and while the device will be particularly useful for street railway linemen, automobile drivers, or tourists it will be found to be very convenient for household use, or any other purpose for which it may be found practical.

We claim A compound tool .of the hammer and hatchet type made from a single piece of metal and including a head and a handle member, said handle member having its opposite sides tapering rearwardly on opposite similar arcs to substantially a knife edge, the curved parts having straight transverse serrations, whereby said handle member constitutes a double-acting pinch-bar, the head member constituting hand-holds for applying leverage.

HENRY LILLARD EAGAN. OTIE CLARK KINSOLVING. 

